CeliacMe

Many people do not know that, before being diagnosed I wished for ADD or something because my friend got a lot of help about missing school because she has that. Well, she's a resturant major, so she was telling me about "gluten guy" at her hospitality school dinners. When I said "HEY! I GOT THAT BE NICE!" She's the one who told me that I'd qualify for disability...

MANY OF US ARE HELPING OTHER ISSUES! I too got my local grocery store to stock a ton of gluten free items. There was nothing when it first opened, the stuart fine foods of plam city. I complained and before you know it there's nut thins, rice crackers, ener-g bread, pamela's cookies, amy's frozen foods, amy's soups and alexia brand potatoes, etc. I also...

Are you maintaining a completely gluten free diet? In your post you stated that "when you eat gluten I always have problems". I say this because my aunt was diagnosed by a doctor who is unknowlegeable about the disease and told it was okay at eat gluten once a week. The problem is that the damages caused by gluten affect you for more than a day or...

Loving it! You defintely beat me out. I was lucky, I was all glutened out when I took my blood test. My antigliadins were a 20, that's high right? If not it should be cause I felt really sick when I took the test! They did test me for diabetes, pregnancy, anurizms, coltitis and a few others that came up negative. Your doctor (endo) must have been...

We are not faulting doctors for not knowing or not diagnosing a disease. We are faulting them for not listening or being compassionate toward their patients. To say that all or most doctors are compassionate or at minimum fulfill their LEGAL FIDUCIARY DUTY to their patients, is hard thing for many of us and in most cases NOT THE TRUTH. There have been...

I loved your POST!! the #3 is the fiduciary duty that professionals (doctors, lawyers, accountants and pharmacists) owe to their clients (or patients). The problem with the way that we, "hypochondriac" or "poor doer", people are treated by the medical community is that - it is hard to prove that we sustained damages that directly resulted from this...

hahha...I've been watching that stupid "flavor of love" it's such a train wreck, I highly reccomend it!

It's sad they have an actual term for us, other than hypochondriac! My aunt is going through the same thing. She's not of blood relation, but she has symptoms of scleroderma and they checked her for other stuff and told her to go home from the ER. Things got worse when she went home, she was getting dizzy and the skin on her legs and arms got so tight...

Oh stop it, nobody's threatening you. you gotta be careful, the doctor loving mob will report me agian.

I got that, "what exactly are you doing here?".

It may be possible, they are just looking for a reaction in your skin when they poke you. The blood test can be done by your regular doctor. They are testing for the antibody. Does anybody know what a normal level is for that test? What's low what's high? Is normal a 0??? Mine was a 20, is that really high? I always have a bad reaction...

HUMILIATING is a PERFECT word to describe how they made us feel! Did you see cornholio's comment about the BRIGHTEST CRAYON SHIRT! That would be a reason to go to the dr! lol! Does anyone know about the gliadin levels!??!?

Unfortunately, HMOs don't regulate lunch hours (not to my knowlege at least). We can thank the Drug Reps for that. They wine and dine those A-holes from 11 to 1. As for your doctor, he's a obviously a dummy. I've been there too (in the waiting room for over an hour). Except I was throwing up and hadn't eaten in almost 3 days and decided not to go to...

As for your malabsorption, I'm sorry to hear that. Obviously, all of us have our health problems and wouldn't be on here if we didn't. BUT if you can't take the criticizm, than don't dish it out. Because you absolutely did! (Also, please note that I said you were "one of the first", which means you are in a group with others). Here is what YOU said...

Rachel: That 10 minutes (it's usually 15 minutes) is based on how much money the firm wants to make. They figure the insurance pays them so much for visit, they figure out how much that visit costs and deduct that amount. Let's say they get $150 per visit, the direct cost associated with the visit is $50. They now have a profit, or contribution margin...